Woodle Tree Adventure


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About the Game

Woodle Tree AdventureA 3d simple platformer.The game was developed by an italian indie studio known as Chubby Pixel known for their game Suicide Guy
and it was published by themsleves. The game was originnaly made for steam but it was later released on the Ps4 and Nintendo switch. The sequel, Woodle Tree Adventure 2 was
released two years later on 2019. Moreover, announced in 2021, Chubby Pixel and Fabio Ferrera the original developer both announced that on May 12th the first Woodle Tree
adventure was comming out for Android and Ios devices. The game does not have a physical release and it's only available for digital download.

Woodle Tree Adventure

1st Game screenshot

Story and gameplay

Woodle Tree Adventure 1 is a simple 3D platformer with a unique art style that resembles old cartoonish graphics where the player controls Woodler ,
a log tree who controls a magical leaf. The first game is really simple, the idea is that something weird is happening to their realm and Woodler was advised by the
Elder tree to go on an adventure in order to collect water in order to save their world. The game then placed the player into a very small hub world.
In the hub world the hero can enter a total of 8 levels by walking straight into one of them or hit them with their leaf. Keep in mind not All of the are unlocked,
as each time the players beat a level another one is unlocked. Two out of the 8 levels are bonus levels that are unlocked by collecting a certain ammount of orbs.
When entering a level, there's two types of collectables the water drops and the orbs. Orbs are the currency and the water drops are the key items the players
need to collect and place them in the glasses at the end of each level. The orbs 're used the orbs to unlock different colour leaves, with their own power up and a cosmetic bandana.

Controls

Woodler was given a small range of abilities but handy for the levels. He can sprint, jump, use the leaf as a mean of landing slower or being boosted higher up and attack enemies.
Square is sprint, X is jump, Triangle is the use of the leaf and circle is to attack. The different colour leaves unlocked, come with different abilities,cbut they are notoriously the same.
These are Yellow, Orange and White. These leaves are extremely similar, they shoot range attacks and can increase the time that Woodler can hover in the air.

The level design, and the enemy variety is really nice for a game its size, They 're really cute and cartoonish. The levels on the other hand are very different from each other and they all
set a different way for platforming and chalenge. Being a platformer means the player dies by one of two ways: Being hit by enemies or dropping off the map. When the hero dies,
they re respawning in the beggining of the map, but all the orbs and water drops that were collected, are still with the player. The only negatve thing about the first game is the
camera angle.

Woodler tree Adventure 2

2nd Game screenshot

2nd Game screenshot The sequel, took the formula and expanded it by alot. The sequel Woodle tree Adventure 2 made the game an open world where once again a curse has fallen into the world and all the sage trees lost their colours as the water could not reach them. Once again the Sage tree request from the player to venture around the world to free the water sources from whatever prevents their water from flowing. The gameplay is extremely close to the first one with the main difference of the world being expanded like 100 times over and the enemy variety increased by alot. The gameplay also met alot of changes as there are shops that can unlock plenty of new abilities. For example, new mechanicks like double jump, wall bounce, leaf skating, triple jump and many others that are worth exploring. They also expanded the customization with a variety of hats. In terms of weaponry the player can unlock more leaves who have similar abilities and shields. Unlike before the players are not one shot by the enemies. This time around Woodler's leaf indicates his it's life. The leaf will get shorter each time the player receives a hit. The player can survive a total of 2 hits, 3 if the shield item is equiped.The players health

Finding the water drops is more challenging than before as the water drops are not placed somewhere easy to spot. In order to find them each time the player reaches a new area and enter that realm they can follow the path with the arrows as they ll most likely help the players find the location where a drop will most likely be placed. Another new mechanism is the the checkpoint factor, which allows the player to respawn in an area close to where he/she died. Unlike the first game, the fear of respawning back in the beggining will not occur. There's also side quest of finding and releasing prisonners and even platforming challenging quests. The last thing added to the maps is collectables that are scattered everywhere in the world and upon finding them they will be placed in woodler's house. The camera is greatly improved and the level design went on another level. The story even increased abit, as the objective is not just go for the water, but Woodler must also discover that there is a major danger that threatens the world, thus the new enemy variety. The music is good and calm and the gameplay is smooth. The developers also went a step further by introducing a 4 player multiplayer. 3 other heroes can join Woodler for his quests. These are the dog, the fox and something that resembles a rock or a bush not sure what it is. Unlike Woodler, the rest of the heroes are one shot, and everything they collect will go in the pockets of Woodler.


The negative thing about Woodler adventure 2 is the fact that it's multiplayer is not as good as it may sound. The games camera whilst in multiplayer is really bad. Unlike older games that used a zoomed out camera angle from above to fit all the players (Such as Diablo, super hero squad, marvel alliance and ohers.) Woodler adventure 2, has it own philosophy. This game instead, pulls a single player camera focus. In other words the camera only focusses on the main player AKA player 1 and ignores all the others. This can easily create confusion as other players can easily drop off screen and probably die. They can always use a button to respawn closer to the player but it s not enjoyable as the camera will most likely always lose focus from the ohter players. The other heores cannot travel the distance , because in case of them going far away,they'll instatlly respawn near player one. In platforming the last thing the player wants is for the camera to mess things up for the player.

Final thoughts

Overall, this is a fun game, it's something really cheap and it will grant the player atleast 4 hours of game experience. A bundle containing both is always available, and there's
always a bundle with other Chubby pixel properties such as suicide Guy. It'srecommended, to download the free app containing the first game just to see if its a game of your liking.
It should be kept in mind that the gameplay wilst on a phone design wont be the same as a console or pc, but the fundementals will be there. Once again both games have a simple and clean
platforming sections, the heroes and villains look really nice and for it's size and price there are a lot of things available for the player to discover. The main issue on both games is
the camera in the first game, and the camera whilst on multiplayer on the second game.

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